Category:Common Fallacies Of Economics

1

• Free Market Theory
• Invisible Hand

5

• Refutation of Dogmas by Empirical Economics

A

• A Plague Of Libertarians/pseudo-academic bullshit
• An FAQ for Libertarians/governments can’t create wealth
• An FAQ for Mainstream/Neoclassical Economists
• Anthropology and Scientific Psychology
• Assuming Slopes of Curves
• Assuming Theory Applies To A Real World Example

B

• BadEconomics, search for libertarian, Austrian Economics, and Bitcoin.
• Broken Window Fallacy

C

• Capitalism is the best economic system ever devised. (Not!)
• Capitalist success is meritocratic and thus deserved.

D

• Deficit
• Derp

E

• Econometrics, open science, and cryptocurrency
• Economic Anthropology: David Graeber Meets the Noise Machine.../gift-exchange
• Economic Ideas You Should Forget
• Economic Incentives Don’t Always Do What We Want Them To
• Economic Philosophy/untested
• Economic Realism (Wonkish)
• Economics As Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
• Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal
• Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly
• Economics is too important to leave to the experts/debatable
• Economics Should Not Tell Us What To Do
• Economists Dissing Economics

F

• Financial Times 404notfound Application Errors Explained as Economics
• Four Fallacies of the Second Great Depression/Fallacies
• Freedom and Necessity/objectivity

G

• GIGO

H

• Hayek Meets Information Theory. And Fails.
• History of Economic Thought, 3rd Edition: A Critical Perspective
• Homo economicus
• How to Get It Wrong

I

• Ideology Underlies Economics
• In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You/effective demand
• In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You/fetish
• In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You/monkeyspaw
• In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You/values
• Individual Choice
• Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction/mafias
• Invisible Foot

L

• Libertarianism is basically video game economics 101

M

• Market economics means more than just supply and demand
• Market Fundamentalism
• Markets do it better and cheaper than government. Not.
• Marx, Marshall And Keynes/doctrines
• Marx, Marshall And Keynes/purpose
• Math vs. Reaganomics: Why GOP's anti-tax hysteria falls flat
• Microfoundations

N

• New Microeconomics: How Evolution Explains Resource Distribution
• Non Sequitur on economics

O

• Optimal Solutions

P

• Pareto Optimality
• Paul Romer on Modern Macroeconomics, Or, the “All Models Are False” Dodge
• Phlogistonomics
• Preventing Economists’ Capture
• Public Choice Theory

R

• Rational Choice Theory

R cont.

• Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based Increasing Returns
• Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based Increasing Returns/gift-exchange
• Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based Increasing Returns/moocher
• Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism
• Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism/economics
• Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism/free trade
• Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism/nothing

S

• Say's Law
• Seven principles for arguing with economists
• Should We Trust Economists?
• Slavery Was Never Economically Efficient
• Some Thoughts About Economic Exposition in Math and Words
• Supply-Side Economics

T

• Taxes And Growth
• The contradiction in economics
• The Dismal Science: 'Seven Bad Ideas,' by Jeff Madrick
• The Dismal Science: 'Seven Bad Ideas,' by Jeff Madrick/Invisible Hand
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money/symbolic
• The Pissed-Off, Entitled, Virgin, Fedora-Wearing Neckbeard's Guide to Self-Righteous, Armchair Bullshit Economics
• The Private Sector can solve that.
• The Will of the Market
• Two modes of pop-economics reasoning popular among libertarians.

W

• We do not owe each other anything because we are self-made.
• What is wrong (and right) in economics?
• What is wrong (and right) in economics?/powerful
• What is Wrong with Neoclassical Economics?
• When econ models potentially mislead, econ profs should say so
• Why Economists Should Look At Horses

Y

• Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without "supply and demand"